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Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:32:50 +0000

I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.

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Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:32:50 +0000

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In the Shadow of the Moon

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:04:03 +0000

remember when the whole world looked up

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NASA - Apollo Chronicles: The Smell of Moondust

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:43:54 +0000

"Why does it smell? How does it react with landers, rovers and habitats? What surprises await?"

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NASA - How We'll Get Back to the Moon

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:02:39 +0000

Finally waking up from the shuttle disaster? (The whole program, that is.) "Building on the best of Apollo and shuttle technology, NASA's creating a 21st century exploration system that will be affordable, reliable, versatile, and safe."

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Wired News: Moon Could Be Next Tourist Trap

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:58:32 +0000

"The first mission by Space Adventures could happen in 2008 or 2009 and is planned as a stepping stone to an eventual lunar landing by private citizens."

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Boing Boing: Abandoned spaceship snapshots are on the way

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:27:04 +0000

"...the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will also snap the first close-range pics of Apollo relics we've seen for three decades." But, of course, they still won't believe we've been to the moon...

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news @ nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion - Images reveal worrying cracks in the face of the Moon.

Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:46:13 +0000

"These earthly bacteria, exposed to intense ultraviolet radiation on the lunar surface, could have acquired mutations that allow them to digest Moon rocks, he suggests."

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